Natural and Biological Inspiration to Remediate Sewage Water for Irrigation

Authors

  • Rania A. Elbialy Department of Chemical and Physical Soil, Agriculture Research Center, Soil, Water & Environment Institute, Giza, Egypt.
  • Mona F. Ghazal Department of Microbiology, Agriculture Research Center, Soil, Water & Environment Institute, Giza, Egypt.
  • Gehan M. Salem Department of Microbiology, Agriculture Research Center, Soil, Water & Environment Institute, Giza, Egypt.
  • Amany M. Hammad Department of Microbiology, Agriculture Research Center, Soil, Water & Environment Institute, Giza, Egypt.

Keywords:

Swage water, Natural remediation, Bioremediation, Cyanobacteria, Trichorumus variabilisas, Zeolite, Biochar

Abstract

Natural cleanup of sewage water has great attention in the recent years. Natural remediation and bioremediation were tested to reduce the heavy metal pollutants of sewage water which collected from El-Suff district, Giza Governorate, Egypt (29 º 34- 38= N latitude and 31º 17- 26= E longitude). The treatments were Biochar, Zeolite, Cyanobacteria (Trichormus variabilis) and a mixture of all tested materials. The treated samples were subjected to determine total dissolved solids (TDS), N-NO3, phosphorus, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and some heavy metals (Fe, Cd and Ni) 10, 20 and 30 days to assess its suitability for irrigation use. All treatments demonstrated an effective clean-up activity and decreasing the concentration of heavy metals, with the
mixture of three tested materials that being the most successful, followed by zeolite and biochar then, cyanobacteria Trichorumus variabilisas individual treatments.

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Published

30.11.2023

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 04 (2023): OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2023

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